“Once you scratch past the nice rhetoric, what you find is a so-called budget expert that’s not really good at budgeting. You find a fiscal conservative who really isn’t that fiscally conservative.” —Chris Kofinis watch video
“The entire premise of the Republican worldview is that we must cut marginal tax rates, even if it means starving critical investments and letting the social safety net get frayed. Their argument — in its entirety — about the virtue [...] watch video
“Tea party, Governor, is an acronym for ‘Total economic amnesia permits additional Republican trickle-down, y’all.’” —John Fugelsang watch video
“As President Obama said the other day, we’ve tried their approach — it has failed. This is no longer an ideological debate; it’s a matter of simply reading the data we have from past experience.” —Eliot Spitzer read post
“There are ample savings to be had by closing corporate loopholes and by asking the people at the top of the income scale [to] pay their fair share.” —Rep. Keith Ellison (D-Minn.) watch video
“This isn’t about awkwardness at the Olympics or a rude press secretary — it’s about economic growth and economic justice. These are the choices that matter.” —Eliot Spitzer read post
“If tax cuts for rich people created jobs, we’d be in economic boom times right now.” —Markos Moulitsas watch video
“The American people are going to sit home and say, ‘Really, at a time when the wealthy are doing phenomenally well, do we really need to give them huge tax breaks?’” – Sen. Bernie Sanders watch video
Felix Salmon, Reuters finance blogger, and Ben White, “Morning Money” and economy reporter at Politico, analyze a study published by the Tax Justice Network that finds that offshore accounts — not including those held by Americans — contain somewhere between [...] watch video
“We are hemorrhaging decent-paying manufacturing jobs in this country.” —Sen. Bernie Sanders watch video
